Re: Translations for Glabels 4.0

[Sveinn í Felli <sv1 fellsnet is>]

Hi, I'm really curious:

Þann 1.11.2018 09:04, skrifaði Mario Blättermann via gnome-i18n:
> Dear translators,
>
> the po files for Glabels are maintained in the Damned Lies pages for more
> than ten years. Thanks for all your work on making Glabels better by
> translating it into many languages!

About leaving DL: is it because translations were not up to expectations 
or because DL insists on the PO/gettext format? Other?

> But Glabels development has been switched from GTK to Qt, and the version
> control system now resides at Github [1]. 

OK, your choice of a toolkit. Not much of a trouble for experienced 
translators running lupdate back and forth to get files over to PO/POT 
and thus being able to use a variety of tools (instead of being 
restricted to Qt-Designer), but most projects I know who have gone this 
route have suffered from severe loss of active translators. This is 
something you're aware of, right?

> ... We have a new project at the Zanata translation management platform.

> ... The Zanata platform doesn't support ca@valencia, so this po file hasn't been imported.

Why Zanata?
As I understand the situation, not a single commit has gone into their 
code since beginning of September. Zanata is a RedHat product, which was 
sort of pushed upon projects like Fedora - whose members are growling 
and complaining about lack of features/support (and about loss of 
translators).
Now, from this thread [1] (see last couple of posts), we can assume that 
RedHat may have abandoned Zanata (and is itself en route of being bought 
by IBM), which may lead to speculations about Zanata's future. But of 
course it's your choice...

Did you consider other translation platforms like Weblate, 
Translatewiki, etc.?

Please don't take my remarks as criticism, I'm just curious to know the 
answer to these questions.

[1]: 
<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/trans lists fedoraproject org/thread/YDPRYFHRLKPFFABFCYF5ADHJNOAPU63W/>

Best regards,

Sveinn í Felli
Icelandic translator and coordinator in various FOSS-projects.

> For the time being, we host only the GUI translations there. Once we have a
> user manual again, this will become also available for translation
> (probably also the man pages).
>
> [1] https://github.com/jimevins/glabels-qt
> [2] https://translate.zanata.org/project/view/Glabels
>
> Best Regards,
> Mario
>
>
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